Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Johnson

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Paul Konerko

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

Paul Konerko

You get what you earn.

Paul Konerko

You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

Paul Konerko

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Paul Dickson

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Mark Teixeira

Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.

Mark Teixeira

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

Mark Teixeira

New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.

Mark Teixeira

I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

Mark Teixeira

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Mark Teixeira

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.

Mark Mulder

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Nick Johnson

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Nick Jonas

I've fallen in love with baseball.

Nan Aron

Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.

Missy Peregrym

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Misty May-Treanor

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

Paul O'Grady

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

Masaharu Morimoto

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Oswald Chambers

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

Pat Gillick

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Pat Gillick

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Pat Conroy

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Neville Cardus

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Neville Cardus

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

Joey Jordison

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

Joe Mauer

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

Joe Morgan

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Joe Morgan

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Joe Montana

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Joe Namath

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.